This is an analysis of the poem Jessie Mitchell’s Mother that begins with:
Into her mother’s bedroom to wash the ballooning body.
“My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdceXededbXeXdXXfXXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000101101001010 1100101011101010 110101001010 10010110111 010101010110 11101011100101 0110111101010 0101111111 11101011010 1111101101011 1010111011010 1010101101110 10001011000101101 0100100111010 01010111110010 10011110101 1010011101011 101011110110 1001100111 10110101011110 101001101101 010 0101011 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1242
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, bend, her, poor, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mine connects the lines.
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